Anthony's Blog

A while ago I commented on the fact that a movie was being shot about our laneway: http://www.centreplacemovie.com/

It's still in production.


The other day we got a flyer announcing that a television commercial for the Victorian Government was going to be shot in Centre Place tonight. I assumed it was going to be another tourism commercial with dreamy shots and large balls of wool. So I was a little surprised when shouting broke out. What sort of toursim ad has angry shouting in it? Had there been an artistic dispute between members of the film crew?

Ten minutes later it happened again. And again.

I suspect that the commerical which "will focus on Melbourne streets" is going to be about something like drunken and violent behaviour as a social evil to be avoided. And Centre Place is being used as a site for drunken and violent behaviour. Which is a bit mean. We don't have much drunken behaviour in our street. (Dennis suggests we do, but I think that any shouting we hear late at nights is all happening out in Flinders Lane.) In our laneway we get people sitting on milk crates and having cigarettes. And canoodling. I think our neighbours with a view further down the lane suspect there's sometimes some drug dealing.

Anyway: here's a shot of our laneway being nice and peaceful.